PS Audio founder and CEO, Paul McGowan, writes a daily blog: short, informative, fun, often controversial, but always interesting. Subjects range from personal stories, how to setup your system, news of the day, streaming, vinyl, tubes, transistors, loudspeakers, holographic imaging and more. Kind of like the Car Talk of audio. Not much is sacred, and there’s rarely a mention of our own products.

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Heads or tails

Paul McGowan

If you're trying to win at a coin toss, there's no way to game the system. Regardless of whether you start with heads or tails, the outcome's always going to be...

Bits is bits

Paul McGowan

One of the promises of digital audio was its imperviousness to the vagaries of vinyl and tape. Unlike it's analog precursor, digital audio could be endlessly copied, transported over any...

Music or sound effects

Paul McGowan

We audiophiles are a pretty predictable bunch. Go to any audio trade show and you'll hear the same music coming out of the majority of the rooms. How many times...

Game changers

Paul McGowan

My ears perk up every time I hear someone use the term of today's headline. When we make an adjustment or replacement that's big enough to rename the game it's more...

Learning and dancing

Paul McGowan

Memorizing a complex set of dance moves does not make you a dancer anymore than familiarizing yourself with loudspeaker setup procedures makes your system sing. Learning the art of setup...

When it gets personal

Paul McGowan

News is little more than noise until it becomes personal. A big snowstorm in another state isn't all that interesting, but a few feet out your front door gives you...